Search engine giant Google has made its entree into an area long dominated by Southern California technology startups: financial products and leads generation. According to Google Thursday, it has launched Google Advisor , a new service to help users find mortgage, credit card, CD, or checking and savings account offers and rates.

This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” Are our users addicted to our product? It’s ok to live-and-die by Google early. But if users don’t come back to your product directly and often I question whether you have a sustainable product / company.

Google's service shuts down on September 14th. Google shut down a long list of projects late Friday. READ MORE>>.

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MARK GELLER

MARCH 1, 2010

[Google, Product] What I learned at Google

It has been almost a year since I left Google, yet I am struck how often I refer to lessons I learned there as I make daily decisions for KlickFu. thought it might be helpful to summarize some of the most important things I learned at Google, some of which may be fairly obvious, [.].

Los Angeles-based DataPop , the product advertising technology developer headed by Jason Lehmbeck, has launched a new product aimed at retailers. According to DataPop, its new OmniAds product uses a retailer''s merchandise catalog to drive advertising on such sites as Google, Bing, Pinterest, Polyvore, Ebay, and Amazon.

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized businesses place online ads, has strengthened its ties into Google AdWords today, saying it has been added to the Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner (PSP) Program. Google did not say how many partners have been added to the program.
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Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Len later joined (PRODUCT)RED as its Founding CMO. We’re focusing now on some search products…where we think there is a long way to go. “So much power has ended up in Google’s search box.
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Only a few weeks ago, Google executives announced Google+ Pages for brands and companies were on the way. Anticipation of Google opening up the doors to businesses on Google+ has been a long awaited feature-add to their fast growing, and widely used platform. But there are some dropdown menus with varying options.
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personally am happy that Google did not buy Groupon because I think the company is very spammy. However, the category is growing quickly and Wallstreet doesn't wait around for excuses of why the advertising giant does not have a product in the category of group buying and coupons for local businesses.
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